Homer, Odyssey 4.397

 

 

“It’s hard for a man to overcome a god”

 

ἀργαλέος γάρ τ’ ἐστὶ θεὸς βροτῷ ἀνδρὶ δαμῆναι.

 

(The English translation certainly doesn’t measure up to the Greek. Maybe if I dropped the indefinite articles….)

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